Tom, i think i will give you a straight answer mate. during the winter months the daylight hours are approx one and half hours longer in Lanzarote than they are in the uk. but in the summer months the uk has approx two and half half more day light hours than Lanzarote. if you look at ther beachbar live web cam tonight at 6pm you will still see it is daylight. if you look at these 2 websites you can compare the daylight hours:-

http://uk.weather.com/climate/sunRiseSunSet-Lanzarote-SPXX0239

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?n=136

i shall leave you to work out how many hours it is dark in both countries

However, sunset today is around 18:40 – i.e. twenty to 7 in the evening, whilst sunrise tomorrow is around 07:40 – i.e. 20 minutes to 8, so nope, nights (darkness hours) are much shorter than for example, in the UK.

Tom Iles, you are not new to this site and have answered many questions in the past. I am suprised you have asked a question about dark night when you should know the answer to this yourself. Are you trying to wind everyone up ?

HRH. Unfortunately I have never asked a question before and somehow my full question was not printed. I was trying to be slightly amusing by stating that the webcam showed darkness to well past 10.00 am and so I assumed the nights were longer. I’ll try harder next time to get it right.

Tom. it does show you the date and time on the web cam the last time it was updated, so you know when it was last recorded, the best web cam is the beach bar, it is actually live, showing pictures as they happen (not still photos) the link is:

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This webcam is available already (popup window) from the link section of our webcam page : http://www.secretlanzarote.com/webcam.html

Not sure what I said in my reply to HRH that warranted the venom. I was trying to explain why my original question appeared to be a bit silly. How can someone be out of their depth when discussing something as obvious as the length of night time? Clearly, the nearer to the equator you get the longer the daylight is. To answer your question Dave Love, I was trying to be amusing about all this and clearly you missed that and so my statement was made.I will now shut up as HRH requested as I am clearly out of my depth on this site with so many brain boxes contributing